Hand Hygiene Research Paper
Healthcare associated infections measures the transmission of diseases and/or bacteria between healthcare professionals and their patients. The measurement of transmissible infection diseases does not eliminate the chances in a hospital setting; rather, the day to day interaction with all healthcare workers. Hand hygiene contributes significantly to keeping patients safe regardless if the patients are humans and animals. Washing hands is a simple, inexpensive, and an effective action to prevent the spread of microbes that cause healthcare associated infection. The most common transmissible disease in any hospital, dental, or veterinary cleaning is Staphylococcus aureus. The task of proper hygiene in-between patients’ care enhances patient safety
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A worldwide systematic review found that the incidence of healthcare-associated infections ranged from 1.7 to 23.6 per 100 patients1. Generally, the control of transmissible infections relies on hand hygiene, which is easy tasks to accomplish. One of the main priorities of the United States Healthcare System are the reductions in of known hospital-acquired infections and common antimicrobial infections – Staphylococcus aureus. In order to track and acknowledges the potential outbreaks of hospital-acquired infections and Staphylococcus aureus, surveillance and case-control studies are used to evaluate handwashing frequencies. According to recent figures2, that at any one time between 6% and 12% of hospital inpatients acquire an infection after admission. However, between 15% and 30% of hospital-acquired infection is considered preventable by proper hospital hygiene of handwashing. In addition, healthcare workers’ compliance with hand washing is considered to be poor. As a study suggested, physicians were observed unobtrusively and shown that only 17% of physicians washed their hands between attending to intensive care …show more content…
The paper noted a study conducted on death of maternal mothers delivering babies after two different pre-procedure check-in occurred. Pregnant women were either admitted into the hospital by medical students or midwives. The studied reveal that the incidence of maternal death was at 18% when the maternal mother was under care of a medical student. In comparison to 2% of deaths, when the maternal mother was under care of a midwives4. Semmelwei was able to pinpoint the difference in percentage through a colleague death. A colleague died from a similar illness, puerperal fever, as the maternal mothers after being accidentally cut during a necropsy. The final conclusion of the study suggested that the infecting particles responsible for transmitting puerperal fever came from cadavers. These infected particles were transmitted by hand to those maternal women who were under the medical students’ care4. This was the first time that the concept of handwashing and had disinfection was designed and
A worldwide systematic review found that the incidence of healthcare-associated infections ranged from 1.7 to 23.6 per 100 patients1. Generally, the control of transmissible infections relies on hand hygiene, which is easy tasks to accomplish. One of the main priorities of the United States Healthcare System are the reductions in of known hospital-acquired infections and common antimicrobial infections – Staphylococcus aureus. In order to track and acknowledges the potential outbreaks of hospital-acquired infections and Staphylococcus aureus, surveillance and case-control studies are used to evaluate handwashing frequencies. According to recent figures2, that at any one time between 6% and 12% of hospital inpatients acquire an infection after admission. However, between 15% and 30% of hospital-acquired infection is considered preventable by proper hospital hygiene of handwashing. In addition, healthcare workers’ compliance with hand washing is considered to be poor. As a study suggested, physicians were observed unobtrusively and shown that only 17% of physicians washed their hands between attending to intensive care …show more content…
The paper noted a study conducted on death of maternal mothers delivering babies after two different pre-procedure check-in occurred. Pregnant women were either admitted into the hospital by medical students or midwives. The studied reveal that the incidence of maternal death was at 18% when the maternal mother was under care of a medical student. In comparison to 2% of deaths, when the maternal mother was under care of a midwives4. Semmelwei was able to pinpoint the difference in percentage through a colleague death. A colleague died from a similar illness, puerperal fever, as the maternal mothers after being accidentally cut during a necropsy. The final conclusion of the study suggested that the infecting particles responsible for transmitting puerperal fever came from cadavers. These infected particles were transmitted by hand to those maternal women who were under the medical students’ care4. This was the first time that the concept of handwashing and had disinfection was designed and